miqo'te male

[Alacran]

I'm not being dismissive at all, but simply stating facts. Your concern is that people will abuse the fact that younger character models are in game. Yet the younger character model used to represent young Lala's is the Lala model itself. And yes, the Quicksand; on Balmung, tends to be a hangout for people seeking questionable RP, however despite there being a much younger looking race (Lala's) that could be potentially abused, the racial makeup of the Quicksand is typically moreso that of Elezen, Hyur, and Miqo'te.

I'll risk playing Devil's Advocate a little more; as I've stated if they've been reported, and followed up on SE's part, with no resulting punishment, then apparently no wrong has been made. Or perhaps they haven't been reported enough for SE to take action towards, perhaps people aren't reporting people as much as they claim, perhaps people see it and just move on with their time. Unless you can claim that you have reported someone and then proceeded to sit there and watch them (for hours, days, weeks, months.. etc etc) to see if punishment ever came upon them, then you can't claim that nothing is being done about it.

I hate to use this as i cannot find the source and as such understand it's questionable legitimacy. However in a developer note, i did see that in reference to Lalafell, the dev team was able to justify their inclusion due to their proportions being not that of a humans, pre adolescent or otherwise. This being the case they are not subject to same standards or reviews when it comes to questionable conduct by the player base. Literally their abnormally large heads and disproportionate bodies constitutes them as not human and not subject to the same laws. This was in a discussion long ago asking for Padjal to be a playable race as early as 1.0.

Again, even though i have searched to the best of my ability, as of now i have no proof of my statement above save my own memory, i apologize as i understand credible proof would be more appreciated.

[Kyuuen]

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That's fair, and actually I think I recall something to similar effect. It is kind of hard to imagine them much smaller. Popoto-tots... >.>

[Atoli]

Not getting into the whole "should we be allowed to play children" debate again, just here to say:

Male Miqo'te children NPCs, yes please!
ACTUAL Lala children - YES please!! xD
Roegadyn that have Roegadyn as children and not Hyur and Lala children - yes pls?

[Culfinrandir]

When it comes to Lala's there is no difference. I believe someone; either in this thread or another, stated that their Lala was actually smaller than the child Lala. So there really isn't any discernable difference currently.

You missed the point entirely. Currently SE define all Adventurers as adults. There can therefore be no argument that the image on screen is that of a child as, I repeat, we have been told that it is an adult. It doesn't matter if Lalafellin children look like adults because the Adventurer's character is *not* a child.

If you want to pretend it us then you're borderline risky RP. However, if SE were to suddenly allow an explicit statement that the Adventurer was a child then any sexually motivated activities would be subject to very strict laws. The game would probably be closed down in several jurisdictions as a result if they didn't modify the age back.

[Culfinrandir]

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However in a developer note, i did see that in reference to Lalafell, the dev team was able to justify their inclusion due to their proportions being not that of a humans, pre adolescent or otherwise. This being the case they are not subject to same standards or reviews when it comes to questionable conduct by the player base. Literally their abnormally large heads and disproportionate bodies constitutes them as not human and not subject to the same laws. This was in a discussion long ago asking for Padjal to be a playable race as early as 1.0.
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I can assure you that wouldn't make any difference legally, in fact it'd probably make it worse. The argument you are discussing was more that "this race isn't human, fully grown they look like children to our eyes but aren't, they are adults". The Padjal are "human" so are clearly intended to be children.

[Raven06]

illustration

picture


Early designs of miqo'te cat male, similar to Lehko Habhoka from Final Fantasy XI.
And certainly not underage child of miqo'te cheetah male.


what i wish

To separate them to a different (races, Animal) for example miqo'te cat and miqo'te cheetah.



Sorry for my bad english
and thank you for your comments

[Nestama]

So long as the implied age doesn't go below 18, I'm fine with it (assuming the request is for them to be playable or something). ♪They'll never be as good looking as Roegadyn, anyway♪

Though yes, NPC kids for all races would be a decent addition to FFXIV's world. Weird how Limsa Lominsa is void of Roegadyn kids.

[Kurogaea]

Don't you dare touch my kittyboys. They're perfect the way they are.

Then why aren't you one?

I was a male miqote once but was just too annoyed how dumb they looked in robes. They're shoulders are waaaay too bulky, its like watching optimus prime trying to cut a jig or something. It'd be nice if we had more of a choice on their build and I wouldn't have choose a fem miqote after the beta. Honestly don't see the problem with having such choices either. If I could I'd go for a slightly muscular fem miqote too, kinda like fem hyurs with their muscle tone choices.

My old miqote character in beta. I don't mind extra pretty male characters in games but can we choose what kind of pretty? (if that makes sense)

Then I changed to a Fem Miqote. Making her tomboyish wasn't too hard to pull off, it just sucks I have to try it anyway since the male miqote builds just turn me off completely.

[Novaura]

I will agree with this. I do wish there was more of a presence of male Miqo'te in the quests and not just being limited to the Crystal Tower saga and the Heavensward Black Mage quests. Heck, it would have been nice to see Male Miqo'te in the cities of Eorzea or around any Aetheryte therein.

i can understand that it is done because of the Miqo'te canon in the Character Creation screen at the start of the game, but even then there are so many female Miqo'te NPCs and so few males. It is quite an obvious discrepancy.